Everyone set their expectations high for Super Mario Galaxy. In a year of few memoralble wii releases, wii owners needed something epic to regain hope and faith in nintendo. This title delivers in that aspect. SMG is the spiritual successor SM64. That in and of itself is a big title that SMG must live up to. Does it do so? Qutie frankly yes. It captures the same charm of the mario universe from the N64 days and reinvigorates it, while at the same time redefining it. This is the new standard for platforming games. What makes this game so revolutionary? Is it the plethora of beautiful varied galaxies sprawling across space? Perhaps it is the attention to detail given to each and every character and object in the game? Maybe the orchestrated soundtrack and hypnotizes a player and captures them in the nostalgia of Mario's best outings? You could be right with agrees to any and all of these questions. However, the thing that truly makes this game revolutionary is the implementation of gravity mechanics. With every landmass having its own relative strength of gravity, one will never be bored finding new ways to experiment with gravity to see its effects on mario. Gravity aspects are beautifully implemented into the game which leads to some of the most intuitive, some times over the top level design one will have ever experienced. As aforementioned, the galaxies are truly a great site to look at. While not totally a graphical explosion, the game uses enough techniques to truly make it standout. It by no means is an ugly game. It is by far the best looking game on the wii, and gives some ps3/pc/360 games a run for their money. However, nintendo proves that you dont need ps3/pc/360 caliber graphics in order to make a perfect game. The gameplay is what SMG is all about, and it delivers with little to no flaws. As for those little flaws...the game is a bit on the easy side. At the same time, some of the stars though intuitive in design, seem much easier to obtain than others. However, on the quest to 120 stars, one will not complain, the SMG is the new standard in platforming, and will have the same impact on the gaming world as SM64.
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